Gratuitous Shots and Birthday Notes -

I can't help posting some more photos of the broken table - the break is so smooth in places, you can run your finger down the edge and not get cut, not even close, no way.

D suggested taking the rest of it out into the National Forest to shoot - except even with a big chunk broken off, it's still incredibly heavy and cumbersome to move - so I think we're just going to try to break it up some more and toss it... seems a waste, but no where around here recycles glass (whole other story) and I just don't know what else there is to do with it...

so pretty...

Anyway - my mother sent me flowers and told the florist to make something native or natural looking - so he sent a dozen red roses with pink carnations, baby's breath and whatever those cute little white flowers are called... real native!!!

So - roses don't look good with carnations!!! Carnations and baby's breath are both detailed, intricate, busy flowers, roses are not... what is wrong with all the florists in this country!!!

So I split it into two bouquets which I think both look better separate than they did together.

This amuses me primarily because at The Wine Bar, we give free meals to a couple that owns a florists shop in town, in exchange for fresh flowers once a week. Two very large displays, and about three smaller ones, that get put around the restaurant. Sometimes they're all real, somethings they're all fake, sometimes it's a mix and sometimes there are fake birds and plastic breadsticks in the displays... each Wednesday when they're changed, we servers do a review of the arrangements... all night long, in between tables, there's a running commentary about whether the fake bird appears to be pooping on the stargazer lily, if the big arrangement up front would be better placed at a funeral, or if the plastic breadsticks look mildly phallic... I realize this doesn't sound all that funny - but somehow, I swear, it is.

There are so many beautiful things you can do with flowers, and then there are really, really horrible things, boring things, tedious things.

Someone, making the bouquet my mother ordered, thought they had to add more flowers, so they filled it all up with out of place carnations and sad baby's breath... if they'd put in about 50% more of the cute little white flowers and left the carnations out all together they would have created a more dramatic, and "wow" arrangement, and I can only imagine it would have cost them less to make... more is not more when it comes to flowers... but florist seem to be stuck in a super conservative and traditional idea of what all arrangements have to look like.

Boo.


Edit: By the Way - besides celebrating my birthday, I also listed Selma Lee on eBay yesterday...